After discovering the art of Maurice de Vlaminck at the 1905 Salon des Indépendants, Ambroise Vollard visited Vlaminck's workshop in 1906 and bought all the paintings which were in the artist's ...

Pottery is one of the most cherished mediums in art and one that ... s egg blue and Famille-Rose vase. Made by the royal potteries for Qianlong Emperor who loved mechanical toys and decorations, this ...

Artists of all levels, critics and admirers alike have long wondered: What is art? Collectors of ceramics face a slightly more specific question: What is art pottery? To a collector, ...

Bassett, Mark. Introducing Roseville Pottery. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub., 1999. Blasberg, Robert W. Fulper Art Pottery: An Aesthetic Appreciation, 1909-1920. New York ...

Middleport Pottery was built by Burgess & Leigh and remains home to the world-famous Burleigh Pottery A charity that owns the UK’s only continuously-working Victorian pottery factory is ...

René Lalique was a seminal French glass designer known for his Art Nouveau and Art Deco perfume bottles, chandeliers, vases, and jewelry. Widely revered and influential in the decorative arts, Lalique ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

YORK based building specialist William Anelay has completed the restoration of the UK’s last working Victorian pottery. The £9 million programme of works at the Grade II listed Middleport ...

Repetition and symmetry are the fundamental aesthetic principles underlying the shape and decoration of ancient Athenian vases ... Greek art, she is author of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Joslyn Art ...

This is the first book to explore how the study of classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed an image of the past which became central to Victorian self-understanding. These ...

But teens are embracing them after exam time. An appeals court judge has ruled that the art gallery’s controversial Ladies Lounge is not discriminatory in refusing entry to men. Head of Create ...